Prosperity tries the fortunate adversity the great.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

My ship came in, then it sank!

There is no greater gift than realizing the constant presence of the Divine and His Absolute Power to create and restore all things.

When someone discovers something in their lives that really interests them, then they should be content with doing that - without having to go and lie on a beach once a year.

I definitely am drawn to deeper reds and wine colors for lips and even cheeks during the holiday.

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.

I think it's fair to have a vote on a resolution for censure.

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are . . . the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a single human community.